University Of New South Wales Press: 180 books
The Way They Were
The View from the Hill of the 25 Years That Remade Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For many years in Australia, reading journalist Alan Ramsey’s vitriolic, insightful, and always engaging pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings. This book is the compilation of Ramsey’s best work, granting ample access to Australia’s national parliament...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia
From Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Indonesia’s current terrorist problems have a long and complex history, and this work, based on a remarkable array of sources, many of which have never been publicly cited, is a rigorous account that fills in many gaps in our knowledge of jihadist groups, how they interacted with the state and events...
by John Mulvaney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Known as a historian, conservationist, leading public intellectual, and, most famously, the father of Australian archaeology,” John Mulvaney is renowned for uncovering the depth of Australian human prehistory. This insightful and illuminating memoir traces Mulvaney’s life from his childhood...
Flying Dinosaurs
How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Unearthing the recent paleontologial discoveries, this fascinating popular science book shows that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the paleontologial world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating...
by Jane Lydon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its...
Born in Hope
The Early Years of the Family Court in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Family Law Act of 1975 and the establishment of the Family Court of Australia in the following year aimed to revolutionize the settlement of marital disputes. But the court quickly became the focus of hostility, and many saw it as a failed experiment. Drawing on interviews with judges, lawyers,...
Icon in Crisis
The Reinvention of CSIRO
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
An insider’s account of the transformation—and recovery from potential ruin—of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), this book details how the iconic research agency reinvented itself through its National Flagship Initiative. In 2001, facing the...
From Vienna to Yogyakarta
The Life of Herb Feith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Herb Feith came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from war-torn Europe in 1939 and went on to become an internationally renowned and passionate scholar of Indonesia. This engaging biography tells Feith's extraordinary story and traces his interest in Indonesia, his determination to establish networks...
Islam Dreaming
Indigenous Muslims in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
From the Malay pearl divers of Broome to the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for more than three centuries. This comprehensive account reveals the life stories of the Muslim pioneers and their descendants as they formed bonds with the indigenous people...
Fuhrer for a Father
The Domestic Face of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
‘I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time...
Long Road
Australia's Train, Advise and Assist Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Helping neighbors and partners stabilize their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force. The Long Road analyzes the successes and failures of ADF's ‘train, advise, assist' missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville,...
River Dreams
The people and landscape of the Cooks River
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River...
A Certain Style
Beatrice Davis, a literary life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert, and Hal Porter, becoming a literary tastemaker in the process....
How to Be a Writer
Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell...